Hotel Porosso Boutique Hotel
12 Cafe Nexus Co-working Cafe
REI Camp Store
34 Ascension Spa Bay Bridge Anchorage
San Jose’s SoMa neighborhood needs a hip boutique hotel to host business visitors and young couples in the area. Hotel Porosso offers a new inside-look on porous bone structure while accommodating San Jose visitors in a trendy design district.
In collaboration with: Deanna Molkenbuhr
San Jose’s SoMa neighborhood needs a hip boutique hotel to host business visitors and young couples in the area. Hotel Porosso offers a new inside-look on porous bone structure while accommodating San Jose visitors in a trendy design district.
In collaboration with: Deanna Molkenbuhr
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3. Concept Diagram Blob-like forms are created based on our inspiration image, a microscopic view of bone.
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First Floor Plan 1. Wine Bar 2. Spiral Staircase 3. Back of House 4. Lobby 5. Registration Desk 6. Coat Check 7. Entry
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Wine Bar
Black Leather Seating
Onyx Quartz
Gold Laminate
Frosted Glass
Concrete Floor Royal Blue Paint
Sky Blue Paint
Glass Panel Facade
Wall Paper This Wallpaper was created by abstracting and altering the original inspiration image. It is later applied as a feature to the walls in the lobby area.
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3D Printed Vase
Bone Vase Elevation | Scale: 1:1
This vase, inspired by the porosity of bone, is used as merchandise for the hotel. They are also used as lighting features casting a luminous glow. Bone Vase Plan | Scale: 1:1
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Bone Vase Elevation | Scale: 1:1
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1. 2. Decal Printed Ceramic Tile Tiles are hand-made and kiln-fired with printed decal pattern of bone structure. These tiles are used to accent the pool area.
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Basement Pool 1. Pool 2. Lounge Seating 3. Spiral Staircase 4. Blob-like Seating 5. Jacuzzi 6. ADA Restrooms
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Cafe Nexus Designers and innovators in San Leandro, CA are looking for a cafe space for creative and collaborative coffee breaks at the Bay Area Advanced Manufacturing Hub(BAAM) and co-working center. At the Cafe Nexus, workers have an opportunity to grab a quick coffee, lounge on lunch breaks, collaborate, or attend after-hours keynote speeches at this LEDinspired cafe.
Cafe Nexus
Designers and innovators in San Leandro, CA are looking for a cafe space for creative and collaborative coffee breaks at the Bay Area Advanced Manufacturing Hub(BAAM) and co-working center. At the Cafe Nexus, workers have an opportunity to grab a quick coffee, lounge on lunch breaks, collaborate, or attend after-hours keynote speeches at this LEDinspired cafe.
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Black Leather Seating
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Bordeaux Felt
Iron I-Beam
Existing Concrete Walls
Cafe Nexus Long Section Metallic Gold Glass Brick = 1’ - 0” Paint Scale: 1/8” Facade
Replicator Lamp Detail Drawing
Concept Modular Collaborative Seating for Atrium
Inspired by the form of the LED, I created a lamp in the form of the concave lens which is replicated across the cafe and help designated seating areas of concentration
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Cafe Nexus Plan Scale: 1/8” = 1’ - 0”
Module Axon Scale: 3” = 1’
Facade Brick
Glass Brick with LED and motion sensor.
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1. Keynote Stage 2. Open Atrium with Modular Collaborative Seating 3. Barstool Seating with I-beam Bar top 4. Cafe Lounge 5. Runway Ordering Station
An REI merchandising competition is looking for a new and innovative Camp Department to attract active outdoor millennials. New merchandising furniture, inspired by the trees of the California Sierra Nevada, form a forest of various displays and technological interaction with REI camping products.
An REI merchandising competition is looking for a new and innovative Camp Department to attract active outdoor millennials. New merchandising furniture, inspired by the trees of the California Sierra Nevada, form a forest of various displays and technological interaction with REI camping products.
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Concept Angular space planning and module furniture was inspired by the form of a solid tree base and its many branches. The offset of many of these modular merchandising furniture forms a relationship creates innovative a forest-like feel, REI allowing Thethatnew, light to filter through . Touch stations allow for Camp Department meant to a break in the “tree line” to focus on seasonal attract active outdoor mellianals product.
would need to be clean and modern but friendly to the outdoor-driven mindset. All the materials are eco friendly re-purposed wood and metals. Shoppers can also use interactive technological displays to learn about or find product within the store or use thier phones to create thier own “hiking trails” within the store.
Modular Merchandising Furniture
REI smart phone apps and touch screen interactive displays These allow shoppers to interact within the store by locating products via “Trail Map”. Shoppers can also use these features to learn more about the features of different products as well as prepare themselves for upcoming adventures.
Ascension Spa
Ascension Spa
The Bay Bridge Anchorage is a remote location that is asking for a serene spa attraction. Using the forms of Olafur Eliasson’s artworks, Ascension Spa is a colorimmersing experience with 360 degree Bay views allowing the guests to become fresh and enlightened.
Ascension Spa
Ascension Spa
The Bay Bridge Anchorage is a remote location that is asking for a serene spa attraction. Using the forms of Olafur Eliasson’s artworks, Ascension Spa is a colorimmersing experience with 360 degree Bay views allowing the guests to become fresh and enlightened.
The Anchorage of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge
Treasure Island
The location is a well-traveled but uninhabitable space making the 360 degree views of the Bay new. The colors allow the space to be everchanging due to seasonal effects. The colors also act as a way-finder throughout the space.
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Olafur Eliasson
Works by artist Olarfur Elliason
Olafur Eliasson Feelings Are Facts Baths are filled with steam that reflects the surrounding color of the glass and gives guests privacy.
Your Rainbow Panorama, Waterfalls, NY, and Feelings are Facts
Entrance Bar
Your Rainbow Panorama, Waterfalls, NY, and Feelings are Facts Your Rainbow Panorama
Glass surrounds the spaces and is colored in relationship to the program.
Olafur Eliasson is a Danish artist that has many architectural works around the globe. He often works with natural concepts like light and water to create an exprience.
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Olafur Eliasson is a Danish artist that has many architectural works around the globe. He often works with natural concepts like light and water to create an exprience.
Restrooms Changing Rooms Sauna Steam Room Fitness Studio Message Rooms Baths
Waterfall, NY Warerfall-like forms protrude from the bottom of each cylinder grounding the form to the Anchorage
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Arrive Red, Orange, Yellow: Hunger & Excitement
Frosted Clear Glass White Leather
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Both materials and FF&E is intentionally neutral and monochrome in color. This allows for the colored light to be absorbed or reflected off these surfaces in order to fully envelope guests in a monochromatic view based on the color around them.
Activate Blue, Green: Health & Fitness
Glass (Rainbow of Color)
Frosted Clear Glass White Leather
Frosted Clear Glass
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Matte Aluminum
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Bathe Purple, Pink: Sunset Ambiance
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